NP Yes, scriptblockers are very nice, but sometimes it's hard to tell what you need to unblock to get the page you are on to work right, so it can be annoying in itself. But it does stop pretty much everything

@justcallmeow, Oh yeah. It does block some things you need, like this forum. i had to allow it because it was blocking notifications.

I think I'm wrong about the spam popups tho. I was just thinking about it and believe the spam is just from the download site itself. But the spinires/mudrunner sites make money from how many downloads it gets. I remember reading, a while back, how people were using file sharing site to make money by posting wares. That was a big thing with warez groups and sites like RapidShare and the other one that got busted. Can't think of the name right off. But I believe they get paid by how many downloads they get.

@bigboyzback well it is not the sites that are ripping mods, it is some of the members of those sites who are uploading other people mods with out asking. right now there is no workshop for maps so third party sites are about it till then, but for workshop vehicle mods there is really no reason for them to be on third party sites.

theres one major issue thats popped up with using this APP..it disables the map progresion..you finish one of the 6 main maps and it doesnt register that you finished it to unlock the next map....but theres alot of Modder made maps out now so I just do those maps....but I have found thats its best to finish the first 6 maps before you use this mod...otherwise you cant do but the first two original maps

I usually get a bitfender warning that the russian site has bitminers.. adds that run on the background processes of the page have minners that use your GPU to farm bitcoin... unfortunately this is a very common way of websites generating revenue.. even some bigger sites we all know and trust use these miners.. rumors have it that Aliexpress is big on this.

Yes the reason for all mods WS supported or not end up on these sites is because of cracked versions.. I'll admit that I've cracked a few games in my time and original spintires was one of them.. at that point modders were still uploading their trucks to the web. the games was too good to not to be bought though.

To try to justify my cracks it's to just try the game, if I like it I'll buy it. and most games I play don't have mod support or are older than most of steam users..

I think it's a terrible thing that the mods are being ripped and I hope that we can find some way of stopping this.